In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Critics, meanwhile, call for their banishment, insisting GMOs were designed by overeager scientists and greedy corporations to bolster an industrial food system that forces us to rely on cheap, unhealthy, processed food so they can turn an easy profit.

5 out of 5 stars

Scathing

By
wbiro
on
09-13-17

The Toxin Solution

How Hidden Poisons in the Air, Water, Food, and Products We Use Are Destroying Our Health - and What We Can Do to Fix It

By:
Joseph Pizzorno ND

Narrated by:
Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
59

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Story

5 out of 5 stars
52

Dr. Joe Pizzorno is convinced that lifelong good health rests on two key determinants: your exposure to toxins and your ability to process them in your body. While lifestyle, diet, and genetics all play major roles in well-being, many symptoms of declining health and chronic disease are rooted in toxic overload - our exposure to a barrage of chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, electromagnetic frequencies, and pollution that are the byproducts of modern life.

4 out of 5 stars

Get the book Appendixed information needed

By
Lee A
on
03-13-17

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

By:
Michael Pollan

Narrated by:
Scott Brick

Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,901

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,372

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,367

"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.

5 out of 5 stars

Great presentation of a moral dilemma

By
MCRedding
on
02-07-09

Caesar's Last Breath

Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

By:
Sam Kean

Narrated by:
Ben Sullivan

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
533

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
482

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
483

The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In
Caesar's Last Breath,
New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it.

5 out of 5 stars

vastly entertaining

By
Amazon Customer
on
08-11-17

The Drug Hunters

The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

By:
Ogi Ogas PhD,
Donald R. Kirsch PhD

Narrated by:
James Foster

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
776

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
712

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
712

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

3 out of 5 stars

Aargh!

By
Curmud the prof
on
05-20-17

The Case Against Sugar

By:
Gary Taubes

Narrated by:
Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,385

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,259

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,257

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever. Obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical, society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup.

5 out of 5 stars

A Revelation

By
ChumlyDad
on
02-03-17

Food Fight

GMOs and the Future of the American Diet

By:
McKay Jenkins

Narrated by:
Robert Fass

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
21

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
20

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
20

In the past two decades, GMOs have come to dominate the American diet. Advocates hail them as the future of food, an enhanced method of crop breeding that can help feed an ever-increasing global population and adapt to a rapidly changing environment. Critics, meanwhile, call for their banishment, insisting GMOs were designed by overeager scientists and greedy corporations to bolster an industrial food system that forces us to rely on cheap, unhealthy, processed food so they can turn an easy profit.

5 out of 5 stars

Scathing

By
wbiro
on
09-13-17

The Toxin Solution

How Hidden Poisons in the Air, Water, Food, and Products We Use Are Destroying Our Health - and What We Can Do to Fix It

By:
Joseph Pizzorno ND

Narrated by:
Robertson Dean

Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
59

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
54

Story

5 out of 5 stars
52

Dr. Joe Pizzorno is convinced that lifelong good health rests on two key determinants: your exposure to toxins and your ability to process them in your body. While lifestyle, diet, and genetics all play major roles in well-being, many symptoms of declining health and chronic disease are rooted in toxic overload - our exposure to a barrage of chemicals, heavy metals, radiation, electromagnetic frequencies, and pollution that are the byproducts of modern life.

4 out of 5 stars

Get the book Appendixed information needed

By
Lee A
on
03-13-17

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

By:
Michael Pollan

Narrated by:
Scott Brick

Length: 15 hrs and 58 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
5,901

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,372

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
3,367

"What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another, this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers, humans have had to learn what is safe, and what isn't. Today, as America confronts what can only be described as a national eating disorder, the omnivore's dilemma has returned with an atavistic vengeance.

5 out of 5 stars

Great presentation of a moral dilemma

By
MCRedding
on
02-07-09

Caesar's Last Breath

Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

By:
Sam Kean

Narrated by:
Ben Sullivan

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
533

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
482

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
483

The fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In
Caesar's Last Breath,
New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean takes us on a journey through the periodic table, around the globe, and across time to tell the story of the air we breathe, which, it turns out, is also the story of earth and our existence on it.

5 out of 5 stars

vastly entertaining

By
Amazon Customer
on
08-11-17

The Drug Hunters

The Improbable Quest to Discover New Medicines

By:
Ogi Ogas PhD,
Donald R. Kirsch PhD

Narrated by:
James Foster

Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
776

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
712

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
712

The search to find medicines is as old as disease, which is to say as old as the human race. Through serendipity - by chewing, brewing, and snorting - some Neolithic souls discovered opium, alcohol, snakeroot, juniper, frankincense, and other helpful substances. Ötzi the Iceman, the 5,000-year-old hunter frozen in the Italian Alps, was found to have whipworms in his intestines and Bronze Age medicine, a worm-killing birch fungus, knotted to his leggings.

3 out of 5 stars

Aargh!

By
Curmud the prof
on
05-20-17

The Case Against Sugar

By:
Gary Taubes

Narrated by:
Mike Chamberlain

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,385

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,259

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,257

Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever. Obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these, and other, critical, society-wide, health-related problems. With his signature command of both science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse of high-fructose corn syrup.

5 out of 5 stars

A Revelation

By
ChumlyDad
on
02-03-17

Publisher's Summary

A few years ago, journalism professor McKay Jenkins went in for a routine medical exam. What doctors found was not routine at all: A tumor, the size of a navel orange, was lurking in his abdomen. When Jenkins returned to the hospital to have the tumor removed, he was visited by a couple of researchers with clipboards. They had some questions for him. Odd questions, like how much exposure had he had to toxic chemicals and other contaminants? Asbestos dust? Vinyl chlorine? Pesticides?

From the moment he left the hospital, Jenkins resolved to discover the truth about chemicals and the "healthy" levels of exposure we encounter each day as Americans. He spent the next two years digging, exploring five frontiers of toxic exposure - the body, the home, drinking water, the lawn, and the local box store - and asking how we allowed ourselves to get to this point. Most important, though, Jenkins wanted to know what we can do to turn things around. Though toxins may be present in products we all use every day, there are ways to lessen our exposure.

ContamiNation is an eye-opening report from the front lines of consumer advocacy.